Meditations

A friend correctly points out that resistance to the necessity of global governance takes two contradictory forms—the idea that “it will never happen,” and “the fear of Global Big Brother.”…

The more interconnected the world becomes, the more regressively people cling to identities that no longer fit at all. Or think only in terms of me and my family. American…

Every child needs to be taught that the map is not the territory, and the word is not the thing. Unfortunately, most adults have never learned it.

Martin is down with respiratory flu, so we’re re-posting one of his columns from September 2015, which sadly, was prophetic. It was good to get out of the Central Valley.…

If the events of recent weeks have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality cannot hold sway over the realities of belief and emotional irrationality.…

There’s an idea floating around that smartphones, Facebook and hyper-connectivity have fundamentally altered not just the way we live, but who we are.

My youngest sister called today while driving home to Saginaw from Kalamazoo, where her daughter is soon to graduate from college. We barely mentioned the latest eruption of evil in…

Humanity’s place in the universe is one of the great-unanswered questions of philosophy and science. The search remains compulsively outward and external however. I maintain the answer is first within.